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Societies need to be regulated. When Moses came down with the commandment: "thou shalt not steal" that was regulation. That was a restriction on what otherwise free people could do in organized society. That was a regulation that involved a "gun in your face."

I'll start taking libertarians seriously when they can come up with anything more than strained and ad-hoc distinctions between regulations pertaining to property and other sorts of regulations.
git has done an excellent job of bringing this abuse into the 2010s. If you need to delete a local copy of a git repo, which is often only useful for a couple minutes while evaluating code, you have to do something to override the read only files git creates. Mercurial doesn't have this issue.
I would consider trying proportional width fonts, but I work on a fairly large team that all touches a lot of the same code. Having bunch o comments not line up may not bother me, but it would annoy others on the team.
Doesn't 'facebook killer' have a number of other, very unfortunate meanings?

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=facebook+killer
I don't think "sometimes" covers it. Almost every medium to large enterprise I've come across considered some/all aspects of their custom software solutions to be a business advantage, even when they weren't applicable to their customers at all.

Everyone wants to be special, and it's a very compelling internal narrative, that your stupid/wasteful/annoying/irrelevant processes (and thus software) is actually a strength.
I like that your site shows the 2008 history right below the 2012 (although it is distracting that the scale in time is different between them). I couldn't even find that comparison when I looked for it on Nate Silver's site.

I'm curious about the methodology as well. Why didn't you choose more standard gaussian statistics for the differences, instead of the combination linear/step model? How much difference would it make?
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That is the real only enemy and this case, and one that I myself fear. That is why you must back yourself up with a good blog with announcements and an goal descriptive product page (showing the user/client which way we're heading and what's the vision).

A good vision description (sales pitch) can sell almost anything.

Thanks for reading by the way!
The concept of "property" (real or intellectual) is precisely a government-granted and government-enforced monopoly right of exclusion.

So ... you're saying none of us have the right to complain?
other than the fact i still use froyo...

there are many "china phone" with android 2.2/2.3 in the market, some have brand like "Samsang", "iPhon" (i just made up the names, but you get the picture). these phones are popular in asia and africa esp for lower income.
Somewhat off-topic, but allowing people to post inline images-- especially animated ones, is such an awful idea.
If he has a good method, if he's on a right track, that method should generally be improving with more work and data so recent predictions should generally be better than distant ones.

Also, "You're only as good as your last envelope."
Does the TAPI name trick anyone for profit?
Makes me wish we had a transactional file system and the ability to force certain deletes to verify even if run as root with the -rf flags so we could roll back this type of thing.
I don't see the point in finding three of anything (is this Super Mario Bros?) but I was reminded of a great prediction made possible by the theory of evolution and thought it would be fun to share with people interested in the history of science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthopan_morgani
One of the best things to happen during this launch is that an engine exploded. You can see engine 1 eat itself at 1:31 in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRTYh71D9P0&feature=youtu...

[Edit: First the video was public, then it was made private, now it seems to be "unlisted" but viewable. So no guarantee that it'll still be there in another minute...]

Why is this a good thing? Because it proves a point: the rocket automatically adjusted its trajectory, and continued on its course as if nothing had happened.

The Falcon 9 is the first American rocket since the Saturn 5 with an engine-out capability. Its multiple symmetrically-arrayed engines allow for it to compensate for a sudden loss of thrust from one side: the other side reduces thrust as well to stay balanced, and everything else just burns a little bit longer. That was the theory, anyways. Today they put it into practice.

For any other rocket that you've seen launched in the last 35 years, that would have ended the mission catastrophically -- but the Falcon shrugged it off like nothing had happened. They always said they could do that, and now they've done it. Congratulations, SpaceX! Creating a fault-tolerant rocket is much better than creating a faultless one (since that's impossible).

[Edit]: In the absence of the video, the engine anomaly is being widely reported on Twitter: https://twitter.com/spaceteam/status/255128401927610368
https://twitter.com/visionik/status/255128010653593600
That's a good idea. There's room for someone to come in and rate the viability of various projects. A need, really. Even with Kickstarter, as we've seen before.
Just a nit-pick: Continental Drift is the theory that the continents were floating on the ocean and has been replaced by plate tectonics. It's not right to say that theory is correct, even though it does align with the facts about Pangea, etc.
I've sponsored Lauren Ipsum (a book about computer science for kids), the recording of a country music CD, an archiving project by Jason Scott (of archive.org), homicidewatch.org and the restoration of an old printing press among others. Most under $10k, all under $50k. These are small projects but they're the vast majority of what you'll find on Kickstarter. They all got funded and as such are successful by their own standards. I always got my rewards, too.

Huge projects that require hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding, like games and hardware, are a relatively recent phenomenon on Kickstarter. And while those projects are potentially more transformative, I wouldn't mind at all if Kickstarter decides that that game is too risky to play for them.
josephcooney hellbanned 4 days ago.
For many countries and potential customers, both Stripe and PayPal are viable options, so if one becomes unavailable for some reason, we at least have a fallback that will cover the vast majority of customers.

A gentleman with whom were were talking mentioned Plimus as another option for countries where bank transfers are common, but they have extremely high fees and low name recognition. Amazon's payment platform could be another option; an older incarnation of Blurity used it.
Not yet scheduled. They now have a test rig ("Grasshopper") with one engine, first-stage tanks, and extremely heavy, fixed legs, which they'll presumably be using to check out flight control algorithms for return and landing; it just took its first, very brief hop off the ground. It's not likely that they'd schedule any launches with a reusable first stage until they had a pretty extensive series of suborbital tests with rigs like this.
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Dark pools are bad for the exchange operators of public exchanges (like NYSE and NASDAQ) but it's far from obvious that they are bad for the financial industry.

There are certain advantages: for example, even now, all it takes is $50-100K to whip the price of certain public companies like Alcoa (AA), a Dow 30 component. I have rocked the boat many times, and the fact that most small traders can do the same doesn't bode well for the markets. The dark pools do allow for large transactions without affecting the price too much, keeping some sense of order (as vacuous as that sounds).

It's important in these discussions to understand that the various companies take sides based on their desired outcome. Other effects like insider trading are far more disconcerting than the issues claimed in this case.
What does that/do you mean?
Thats a fantastic idea.
Thanks. I am frequently grumpy as well so I thought I would respond as I would like to be responded to when I am in that state of mind. It takes a lot of energy to perma-grumpy.
It's not that complicated, especially if you have been following Diaspora here. Too much spotlight, not enough traction, a suicide, no more money.
The user josephcooney left a comment on this post but it's invisible to everyone. This is called 'hell banning'.
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I didn't even notice the profanity. He's not in a corporate setting or anything, who cares?
my bad, sorry about the limbo-merge guys, I'll read PRs closer and/or ignore them since I don't have time
Why does everyone keep saying Doing X in Language Y is faster than X in Language Z?

Really they are comparing compilers, not languages. Everyone seems to just keep making potshots at Language Z.
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I'll start taking libertarians seriously

FWIW, I'm not a libertarian.

more than strained and ad-hoc distinctions between regulations pertaining to property and other sorts of regulations

If you believe each person should work to achieve their own happiness and has no duty to sacrifice for others, then it follows that the role of government should only be to protect citizens from the initiation of physical force. That's the fundamental principle that is relevant to our discussion--not something to do with property. (Granted, some libertarians would argue, incorrectly, that property is fundamental.) For a full explanation, see "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand" by Leonard Peikoff.
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> Please stop with the X higher level language can be faster than C unless you can challenge the limitations imposed by the laws of physics. Not which compiler is better. I can always find a better or worse C or JS compiler/JITter so that proves nothing.

Turing equivalence and not even turing equivalence but 2 pieces of code with roughly the same functionality does not dictate the speed between them. You seem to be under some sort of misconception that two pieces of code have to be implemented in the same. For a long time tcl led the computer language shootout regex test because it has a wicked fast regex library(written in c I think). Nowadays the c version of that test uses the tcl regex library and is beaten by v8(chrome) javascript's even faster regex library(written in c++).

It is hard to beat c in speed and it is rare when something implemented in a different language does it. When it does it is frequently do to the algorithm/way it was implemented. The reason that this is so is that few people care enough about beating c with c++ being the only real contender. if you are careful you can beat c code with c++(almost all c++'s slower features do not slow it down if not used) add that to some cool compile time tricks with template metahackery and c++'s better inlining and you can do it.

The other part about beating c is complexity. Certain things are complex to implement in c. There is a reason we use so little assembly anymore, it's possible for smart people to beat optimizing compilers for certain cases but the general case isn't so pretty for it. Also with the rise of more/cheaper memory for gc to work well(and when it does it goes like hell on wheels) and parallel computers(parallelism being much easier in some languages then c) we may see it more soon. People have been saying that for a while but still.
Transactional filesystems have been implemented at considerable expense. To be clear, I mention transactions at a high enough level to encompass deleting a subdirectory (most reasonably implemented filesystems have support for tiny transaction that ensure that metadata is available on disk in a consistent fashion).

When I say considerable expense, I mean _very_ considerable expense. I know of no efficient implementation and only one practical implementation: TxF. TxF is not very fast either, it requires double the writes and, on top of that, is not easy to use. Microsoft is considering deprecating TxF due to the cost of continuing it's maintenance at the expense of other features [1]

I think a more reasonable model for what you want is filesystem snapshots. This is a feature that can be implemented with relatively high performance and without causing terribly large amounts of complication (needing to transact file descriptors, etc.)

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh80...
Is it complicated? Diaspora was a nice idea but if I recall correctly it was a group of kids with no experience or evidence of being able to execute who happen to catch a great marketing wind.
This sounds like a nice course if you want a theoretical, academic intro to computer networking if you already have a hands-on networking background and want to think more abstractly about networking.

As a network engineer, unfortunately it sounds like this course will likely be rather detached from the knowledge required for day-to-day enterprise or carrier networking, such as how to set up redundant network links or allocate IP space. I'm not saying Stanford needs to offer a free Cisco CCNA bootcamp, but there is an opportunity for a balanced course. I find a surprisingly high number of "network engineers" who can't explain how DNS name resolution works, or the purpose of an IP subnet mask.

What I have found to be an EXCELLENT intro to practical networking is Juniper's Networking Fundamentals self-guideed online training. Although offered by Juniper, it's 100% vendor neutral. Details at https://learningportal.juniper.net/juniper/user_activity_inf...
At least for the first decade or two (maybe still - I don't know) the shuttle SRBs were only recovered for political reasons - the system was supposed to be reusable and they didn't want to be accused of building an expensive disposable rocket.

By the time the boosters were recovered disassembled, had every inch checked for damage (visible and xray), and rebuilt, the cost was more than if they'd just left off the parachutes and built a new pair for every launch.

In theory if you landed the first stage of a liquid fueled rocket back near the launch site you could just gas it up and launch again, since the stresses are so much lower. I doubt that's what will happen, though - they'll give it a pretty thorough (and expensive) going over the way NASA did with the SSME.

There are two ways this could make sense from a cost perspective. One is after a confidence-building period they just do quick inspections and live with a slightly higher failure rate on subsequent launches. This would mean the second and subsequent missions are unmanned only, and it would have to bring the cost down so much that satellite makers could afford the risk.

The second is they just do relatively quick and cheap inspections and the increased failure rate is so small it's balanced out by the decrease in failures due to manufacturing error. This is really the holy grail of the rocket business, since it means you start to operate on the same economics the airlines do, where fuel is the cost driver. In rocket launches fuel typically comes to about 2% of the cost.

Putting a kg into LEO takes about the same amount of energy as flying it from LA to Sydney on a 747. The reason sending that kg to Sydney is so much cheaper is they turn the plane around and fly somewhere else instead of throwing it away.
The domain veri.fi is still available :)
I've never seen an example of this where other users are made away of it though. Is it to serve as a warning?
Where in the heck do you download this? I can go to github but I have to compile it, which needs "makeotf", and I don't have that on OS X. At least not right now.
I agree. This is a great reason to by a mac. It would be nice if the competition did this too.

I don't get why are so offended that another store is similar to one they like. It's just an electronics retailer.
I think it is easier for the compiler for a high-level language to predict usage patterns --- which branches will be taken, which variables should be in regs or L1, which functions are best served by slower code with a small memory footprint vs. faster code with a larger footprint, what's best handled with a jump table versus with conditional jumps, &c &c --- that can a C compiler, and that over the long run languages with better, more consistent abstractions than C are going to have better runtime characteristics than the outputs of a C compiler.

Put differently: C compilers are hamstrung by all the dumb C programs a developer could express with C.

Javascript compilers have to deal with bad Javascript, don't get me wrong, but they don't have to deal so much with bad list and table implementations.

I get what the LuaJIT2 post is saying (and let's be clear: I'm not putting myself on a level with the Lua JIT people).

For what it's worth: C is my first language, and my favorite language. My background is systems programming. I would not enjoy figuring out how to reliably write a memory-mapped CSR while masking the right set of interrupts in Javascript. :)
shit happens, and then you die. when you have 50+ people that just "+1" an issue for long enough without helping, you tend to limbo-merge
Nice site! On the front page, when I hover of the 2008 graph, I see stats for Obama/Romney rather than Obama/McCain.
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thats what i figured. Although to me it seems like a lot of moving parts, and big hit to fuel and payload. I wonder if development focused on optimizing it as a one use booster and driving down the cost of each booster might be more efficient in the long run.
So take the output of the profiler after running the program on a diversity of real inputs and use that to drive the optimizer.
In this plot http://imgur.com/BAEie you can see the difference between a gaussian model and the model I use for the translating state poll differences into probabilities of winning that state.

I prefer to have the flat region of 50% probability when the state poll difference is small, which the gaussian model doesn't have, to take into account (a) the various errors in the polling data and (b) the likelihood that people's minds can change by the time the election comes.

As to how much difference it would make, with the current model, Obama's probability is now at 81%, whereas with the Gaussian model it would be around 95%.
It's generally so that the person in question knows they've been hellbanned, as it can be difficult to tell if you have been without someone mentioning it.
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Um, my money is on this option: "(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage"

I am going to wrote allmy papers like this, "Either some ridiculously unlikely scenario will never be reached, or some other unfalsifiable scenario is true."
How often does "something" killer actually kill its target?
The Republicans are the ones responsible for the ridiculous union pensions, because those were what they offered in concession during the 60s and 70s instead of paying the workers a fair wage at the time. So why the hell would you vote Republican if you were against the pensions?
And how many users of those budget phones even realize that apps exist, or will be willing to buy yours?
Actually, I did intend it as a negative. I wanted to contrast the great weather with it. I just couldn't think of any negatives at the time, but some more include the aforementioned "SV bubble" and the relatively lamer social opportunities compared to other metropolitan areas.
> If you believe each person should work to achieve their own happiness and has no duty to sacrifice for others, then it follows that the role of government should only be to protect citizens from the initiation of physical force.

I don't see how you get from "no duty to others" to "government should protect citizens from initiation of physical force." It doesn't logically follow in any way. It's an arbitrary bit of line drawing. If people have no duty to others, why may they not use physical force to achieve their own happiness? This is after all the state of nature. The wolf owes no duty to the deer, and no government restrains him in his use of force to achieve his happiness.

Taking physical force off the table is inconsistent with the idea that people have no duty to others. For a great many people, physical force is their competitive advantage. They were born big and strong. They would rule the world instead of the bankers and the politicians if it were not for the government restraining them. Yet the government does restrain them, and that often relegates them to the lowest rungs of society. Imposing that restraint on them is certainly imposing on them a duty. It forces them to sacrifice for the rest of society.
If you're going to nitpick, choose your words carefully. :-P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift puts it, Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other by appearing to drift across the ocean bed. Note that "appearing to drift" and "floating on the ocean" are very, very different things. A trivial comparison of rocks and water demonstrates that "floating on the ocean" would be inconceivable for something natural that is as big as a continent.

That said, plate tectonics is a much better theory. But I would say that it has the same relation to continental drift that Newtonian mechanics has to Special Relativity. The theory is clearly wrong, but the succeeding theory explains why the less detailed theory appears to work.

Furthermore plate tectonics is itself a theory that in due course of time will be (and to some extent already has been) replaced by something more complete. For instance consider Hawaii. We have a chain of islands that is produced by the movement of the Pacific plate over a hot spot. What creates these hot spots? What role do they have in pushing plate tectonics? A theory that explains all of this will be undoubtably differ in detail from the original theory of plate tectonics, though it will have to explain why plate tectonics seemed to work.
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The video is now private, does anyone have a mirror?
I checked out the video you linked. It's now all of a sudden marked Private for some reason...
Is there any corroboration from SpaceX that there was indeed an engine failure? It looked to me like it could have been ice breaking off near max Q or some kind of shockwave interacting with the exhaust plume. I'm not questioning your observation but it didn't look definitive to me. I agree that having redundancy is good though.
In the past, Lockheed and Douglass had contracts to build the launch vehicles and support systems, which then became property of and were maintained by NASA. SpaceX has a contract to deliver cargo, meaning that the launch system and control is entirely theirs and NASA cargo is merely hitching a ride on it. Exciting times, my friend.